It is essenital for nurses to identify areas where lack of knowledge, misconceptions and/or attitude contribute to the management of cancer pain. This study examined the influence of an educational program on the attitudes of nurses and their knowledge of analgesia for the person with cancer within the context of allport's definition of attitude and the information-processing theory of learning. Utilizing a quasi-experimental design, 52 nurses completed two instrumets Attitude inventory and nursing Analgesia knowledge. The control group (n=20) and expermental group (n=32) completed pre-and pottest instruments. The experimental group attended the educational attitude in ventory pottest scores were significantly higher than those of the control group (p=0.000). Analgesia knowledge posttest scores for the expermental group were sigfincantly higher than those of the control group (p=0.000). These findings emphazied the importance of an educational program on a cancer pain management as a statistically significant correlate of nurses's attuide and knowledge regarding pain management as a statistically sigificant correlate of nurses's attitude and knowledge reagarding pain management in the person with cancer. Implications for nusing include the integration of new nursing infromation with existing goals to initiate a change in attitude that will influence behavior.